It all comes down to the music in the 1976 remake of A STAR IS BORN starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. This was one of Barbra's first efforts as producer/actress and she and then boyfriend (and hairdresser) Jon Peters throw it all at the screen in their version of the oft-told story of a rising and a falling star in love. Kristofferson oozes rock star charisma as John Norman Howard, hit maker, alcoholic and wild man. After a drunken, angry concert one night,

Alan Alda not only wrote THE SEDUCTION OF JOE TYNAN , he stars as the title character, a hardworking senator with Presidential ambitions. His life is about to get a lot more complicated. After passing a long talked about jobs bill, Tynan's stock in Washington soars. He suddenly finds himself leading the opposition against a Supreme Court nominee with a very racist past. The lead champion of that same nominee is long-time friend Senator Birney, well played by Melvyn Douglas, w

Jason Statham has become one of our most reliable action heroes, turning out one enjoyable popcorn action flick after another. His latest, SHELTER is no exception. Statham again reminds me of Charles Bronson in the seventies, who delivered a reliable action flick like "The Mechanic" or "Mr Majestyk" every 8 months or so. The difference is that Statham's thrillers have $50 million budgets that deliver grand scale action and thrills on a level Bronson only dreamed about. This

We've all heard of the perfect crime. CRIME 101 is the perfect crime film. It's early in 2026, but I think it will be hard for any film this year to top this slick, intricately constructed mystery thriller. The best of its kind since Pierce Brosnan's "The Thomas Crown Affair" in 1999, CRIME 101 pulls you into four characters that will eventually collide on screen. Chris Hemsworth is excellent as James, a meticulous & mysterious jewel thief executing a precisely planned seri

One of the stranger BIG box office hits from the early seventies, WILLARD is infested with rodents, but very few scares. A very young Bruce Davidson stars as Willard Stiles, a timid young accountant who suffers daily, cringing in the wake of Martin (Ernest Borgnine) his loud, demanding boss. Willard lives at home with his aging mother Henrietta (Elsa Lanchester) in their crumbling, big old Victorian house. Browbeat by his boss, trampled on by life, Willard begins to make fri

Rose Byrne delivers a powerhouse performance as a woman stretched to her limits and far beyond in IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU . It's the darkest of comedies and the most lethal of dramas wrapped in a relentless fever dream. This is not a fun night at the movies and Writer/Director Mary Bronstein isn't interested in spoon feeding you a tidy narrative. Bronstein and Byrne craft a very tough and delicate woman in Linda. She takes no shit off anyone as her life spins ever so slowl

Take everything you love about 80's action flicks, douse it in everything you loved about the original "Predator", throw in a hint of "Aliens" military action and you get WAR MACHINE , one of the purest thrill rides I've enjoyed in ages. This thing is a beast that I never saw coming. Alan Ritchson (Reacher, The History of Ungentlemanly Warfare) is a giant of a soldier. As the film opens, we meet him in the middle of Afghanistan military ops, where he and his brother (Jai Cour

It's incomprehensible that Disneyland could have built in one year. Yet that's exactly what Walt Disney and his team did, as seen in the fascinating documentary, DISNEYLAND HANDCRAFTED . The film is created solely out of rare archival footage, personal home movies and Walt's weekly TV series, documenting everything from the first bulldozer running through an orange grove to opening day in 1955. Walt Disney's labor of love overcomes seemingly impossible odds to hit the opening

We are a long way from Emily Bronte's classic in Emerald Fennell's new adaption of WUTHERING HEIGHTS . Wild, sexy, funny, tragic and sometimes just bonkers, Fennell's screenplay infuses Gothic romance with a whole lot of modern sensibilities. Is there some lineage between classic director madman Ken Russell and Emerald? Margot Robbie is Cathy, stunning, impatient and saddled with a decrepit homestead and an alcoholic father, Mr Earnshaw, well played by Martin Clunes (Shakespe

The Russo Brothers have plundered all my built up goodwill with their ridiculously predictable, daft new pirate movie THE BLUFF . How can a film so packed to the top of its treasure chest with action be so dull? I can't fault the two leads, who do everything they can with two underwritten roles. Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Quantico, The Matrix Resurrections) is here to kick ass as Ercell, the wife of a sea captain raising a teenage girl and boy. Their little home on a stunning tro